Test 6 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the p…

why did he go to the tavern, bro?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: go · To what, where: tavern

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1098 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the poor man gets a magic sack and loses it in a tavern» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 tavern	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tavern	det
7	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tavern	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	he			the tavern and bro			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tavern=Initial_Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

to check whether the sack really worked at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 worked	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sack	det
5	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worked	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 worked	advmod
7	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 check	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	work	past	the sack					at all	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to test the sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sack	det
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		the sack					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme

Option 3

to see if the tavern had any ale left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tavern	det
5	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 ale	det
8	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ale	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the tavern	any ale	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Patient
3	leave	participle		any ale not said here	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

to buy beer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 buy	mark
2	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	to-infinitive		beer					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme

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